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Algol 60 is wildly underappreciated, and pass by name[1] is a great example. [1] http://www.cs.sfu.ca/~cameron/Teaching/383/PassByName.html http://www.cs.sfu.c
by User23 8y ago
Algol 60 is wildly underappreciated, and pass by name[1] is a great example.
[1] http://www.cs.sfu.ca/~cameron/Teaching/383/PassByName.html http://www.cs.sfu.ca/~cameron/Teaching/383/PassByName.html
Edit: An elementary error is to assume that call by name is equivalent to pass by reference. It's not.
- mpweiher 8y ago"Here is a language so far ahead of its time, that it was not only an improvement on its predecessors, but also on nearly all its successors" - Hoare http://www.computernostalgia.net/articles/algol60.htm http://www.computernostalgia.net/articles/algol60.htm
- agumonkey 8y agoAlways surprises me how much algol did embed.